Re: kernel BUG at tg3.c:1557

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:40, Roland Kuhn wrote:
> On a dual Athlon MP with a 3ware-7850 RAID (640GB RAID-5) and 3C996B-T GE 
> NIC I can crash the machine with the above BUG message in virtually no 
> time simply by copying data both ways between the RAID and the NIC. The 
> BUG message shows that this can happen any time, it doesn't matter if the 
> interrupt is received in cpu_idle or something else. I tried noapic, but 
> to no avail.
> 
> Does anybody know about this problem?

I've never been able to get a broadcom chipset ethernet card stable on a
dual athlon with AMD 76x chipset. I have no idea what the problem is
although it certainly appears to be PCI versus main memory ordering
funnies.